
Episode 122: United Airlines Flight 232
Well There‘s Your Problem
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Lockheed DC 10 L 10 11 L 1011 DC 10
The big problem is this market for these widebody tri jets turned out to be smaller than expected. Neither the DC 10 nor the L 10 11 made too much money for their respective designers. Lockheed completely exits the airliner business entirely. It's sort of like a long trend towards consolidation of bigger planes that culminates in the end of the 747.
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